Plug-in growth decreased, but overall car sales in Norway decreased by 13.5% so being 13.6% up is not bad – especially as lot of consumers wait for new plug-in models in thousands-long queue largely created by production constraints..

Bravo Norway. Probably people there are way more concern about the environment then the rest of us. Wish we could do the same in Québec. We do have the Hydro electricity, we just need people more buying electric car. Great Olympic also

Yes, we know. The reduced import tax is bigger. But this is a smart move by Norway….sell your oil to the suckers while you drive on cheap Norway generated hydroelectricity and wind electricity.

Norway needs to make their home-heating more efficient though…more insulation and try to install heat-pumps. They built too much electric resistive heating because of their cheap hydroelectricity. It is more valuable now because you can use it in EVs or export it to Europe.

However, you need to put in more effort. Passive thermal control of your battery is weak sauce. And your design still leaves much to be desired. But you are still MUCH better than most car companies on EVs. Tesla and GM are doing better than you though.

It takes more electricity to refine gasoline then it does to charge everyone’s car if we all had EVs. Imagine how much energy it takes to pump a ten thousand foot long 4cm ID steel rod up and down 3 meters. How much power does it take to pump molasses like oil thousands of mile through a pipeline. Every refinery has s million volt direct feed from a power plant and used as much electricity has a small city.